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Be sure that head and heart were laid In wisdom down, content to die. Be sure he faced the Starless SkyUnduped, unmurmuring, unafraid.(“ The Passing of Bierce”)George Sterling
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ABNORMAL, adj. Not conforming to standards in matters of thought and conduct. To be independent is to be abnormal, to be abnormal is to be detested. A striving toward the straiter [sic] resemblance of the Average Man than he hath to himself, whoso attaineth thereto shall have peace, the prospect of death and the hope of Hell.Ambrose Bierce